talkwith is a script which makes switching speech synthesizers in speakup very simple.
The options are as follows:
synth - any synthesizer supported by speakup
daemon - for the 'soft' synthesizer, this should be either spd for speechd-up, or espeakup to run
espeakup. For the other synthesizers, this is ignored.
options - for a software synthesizer, the rest of the command line is passed on to the daemon; otherwise
it is ignored.
Talkwith does not install or remove modules, so make sure any required driver modules are installed or
built into the kernel before running talkwith.